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There’s no end to the excitement in the cryptocurrency space! In the last 30 days, we have seen all-time highs in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptos, followed by drops averaging 25% in value in just days. Volatile Investments If you have been tracking cryptos for any length of time,...

Just as we are moving past the first hard fork of Bitcoin, we are preparing for the next major update called Segwit2x. Much like the successful Bitcoin Cash fork that occurred on August 1st, we are now looking at another hard fork that is likely to occur this November....

Bitcoin Cash. It’s just a week since Bitcoin “forked”, turning one digital currency into two, Bitcoin (BTC or XBT) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH or BCC). Regardless of what happens to Bitcoin Cash following this event, Bitcoin has reaffirmed itself as stable and worthy of its “gold” status among digital...

If you currently own bitcoin, prepare yourself now for the upcoming potential “fork” on August 1st. Be sure that your bitcoins are in cold storage (such as in a paper wallet or a USB hardware wallet) so you can best protect your investment and potentially double your holdings. Bitcoin...

Are you investing in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies today? If so, are you doing it safely? And, how do you really know if you are really protected from hackers and thieves? For many people, keeping their bitcoins or other cryptos at exchanges and online wallet providers seems safe. In...

Benjamin Franklin was famously quoted as saying, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” The same goes for bitcoin and digital currencies. If you don’t have a plan… The Act of Planning One of my clients and I were talking about just this topic recently. For...

Today is “Bitcoin Pizza Day”, the 7-year anniversary of the first real-world bitcoin transaction, performed on May 22, 2010. The story goes that Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer, paid 10,000 bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizzas. At the time, bitcoin was just over a year old, having been launched in early January...

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Three interesting articles were released over the past week from a good source of bitcoin and digital currency news, Bitcoin News. Here’s my take on the top three that may affect us as traders and students, and our plans for cryptocurrency investing. Like Gold, Bitcoin’s Cryptography Has Been Valued for Millenia...

Each country has its own approach to taxing bitcoin. Most consider bitcoin like property or a commodity. The US is a good example of this approach. What this means is that you buy bitcoin without tax, however you pay capital gains on the difference between your purchase price and...